Sunday, May 5, 2024

JR Newsletter: 5 May 2024 (627)

Sean Kelly wrote about the upcoming sale of an 1835 LM-12 half dime.  Your editor added a couple things to his opening paragraph. Sean did a great job illustrating the known information about this rare die marriage and encourages anyone with additional information to please contribute too!

 

We in the capped bust half dime community are talking about the 1835 LM-12 half dime in PCGS MS65 that graces the cover of Volume 34 of our JR Journal. It’s an interesting coin: high grade, original, rare. The LM-12 variety was discovered in 2007 by Edgar Souders, but Richard Meaney knew of this MS65 coin’s existence before this coin’s existence was announced publicly, as his research spotted it in the 1999 Walter Childs catalog from Bowers & Merena. As I write this, its upcoming sale at Heritage Auctions is less than a week away. The new owner of the coin will no doubt be proud of their acquisition!  Richard knows of a handful of other people who knew about this particular coin long before it was announced.  Most had learned about it from seeing it in the Childs catalog.  Richard recalls searching for it for years and considering the effort fruitless, so he told a prominent dealer about the coin's existence in hopes that the dealer would find it!

 

A great thing about the JRCS is that its members value the accumulation of knowledge just as they value the acquisition of coins. As I am an avid collector of the capped bust half dimes, who happens to also be the JRCS’ newest census keeper for them, I thought I’d share some insights into the 1835 LM-12. I invite anyone with additional information to email me!

I believe the current population, informed by the JRCS March 2023 census and contacts in the community, consists of these nine coins, as shown in the linked pdf: Linked PDF Click here!


Sunday, April 28, 2024

JR Newsletter: 28 April 2024 (626)

Brad Karoleff wrote:

 

Nominations are requested for the JRCS Hall of Fame. Please consider nominating a candidate to our HOF in either the modern or veteran categories.  Remember the veteran nominations are for someone contributing to our specialties prior to the advent of JRCS and the modern from 1986 to present. Please include your reasons for your nomination. 

 

The nomination period will close the end of May. Please forward your nominations to me at bkaroleff(at)yahoo.com

 

Thanks

 

Brad

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David Perkins wrote:

 

W. David Perkins and Jim Matthews will be sharing Table 1011 this week at the Central States coin show.  If you are attending please stop by and say hello.

 

I have a good selection of early dollars, quarters, half dimes and other early silver. Newly acquired Early Dollars include one 1795 Flowing hair Dollar in PCGS VF20, two 1796s in VF grades (both CAC), a beautifully toned  1797 in PCGS  AU53 (ex. Benson, Perkins Collection, Catherine Bullowa,) a very nice 1799 Dollar in a new CAC holder graded CAC VF35, an 1800 Dotted Date in PCGS VF35 CAC, and a choice 1800 12 Arrows type Dollar in PCGS AU50.  For quarters there is a lovely 1806/5 Quarter in a new CAC graded holder (AU50) along with a number of nice CB Quarters.  And some rare half dime marriages and remarriages.  

 

Jim will have a selection of early U.S. coins and interesting items. Mike Clark from JRCS will be with Jim and I and will have some neat items for sale also.

 

Should be a great show.  Hope to see you there!

 

W. David Perkins

Centennial, CO 

 

Cell 303-902-5366

 

E-Mail wdperki(at)attglobal.net

Sunday, April 21, 2024

JR Newsletter: 21 April 2024 (625)

 Brad Karoleff wrote:


We need articles!


Are you working on anything for publication?  The next issue of the JR Journal is on a deadline.  It has to be shipped in mid-July in order to be in your hands before the annual ANA convention and our annual meeting.  We need your submissions by June 1 to be able to format the articles and have the journal printed and shipped on time.

Can you  help us?  Please let me  know if you will be sending us anything for publication.  

Thanks, 
Brad 

bkaroleff(at)yahoo.com

Sunday, April 14, 2024

JR Newsletter: 14 April 2024 (624)

Brad Karoleff wrote:

The next issue of the John Reich Journal is now at the printer!

Whole number 101 will be mailed to the membership in the next week, or so.

If you do not receive your issue by the end of the month please drop me a line at bkaroleff(at)yahoo.com for a replacement.

Hope to see many of you at the upcoming CSNS show May 1-4.  I will be set up at table 1400, drop by and say hello!

Brad Karoleff

Saturday, April 6, 2024

JR Newsletter: 7 April 2024 (623)

 Sean Kelly sent a revised spreadsheet/template that may be used for recording and reporting your bust quarter census, linked here: https://mcusercontent.com/74a0e3c37d154d935bdeb2daf/files/bb173ff3-4cf0-cc67-82be-5c99f1ed835d/Revised_quarter_template.xlsx

Sunday, March 31, 2024

JR Newsletter: 31 March 2024 (622)

 Sean Kelly and Glenn Peterson are teaming up to assemble the bust quarter census.  They sent the following:

BUST QUARTER CENSUS –INPUT REQUESTED by JUNE 7, 2024!

 The summer issue of the JR Journal will include the Bust Quarter census. Please send your census information (your name and JRCS number, Dates, B-Numbers, and Grades), including any duplicates you may have and mentioning any coins with E and L counterstamps. Sean Kelly will co-author the article, collecting your inputs. Please email your coin census information to Sean at skelly63(at)gmail.com

There is an Excel template available to list your coins / grades – watch for this to be posted on the JRCS website and at the JR Newsletter (linked below), or email Sean for a copy.

You may send suggestions for article content to Glenn Peterson at gpeters(at)tds.net, with subject “Quarter Census” on your email. You may also send US mail to Glenn Peterson, 9301 Park West Blvd Suite B5, Knoxville, TN 37923. 

Thanks!


Link to Excel template you may use: https://mcusercontent.com/74a0e3c37d154d935bdeb2daf/files/8904e301-883d-cc7f-b1c0-74b25441c3eb/Copy_of_2024_Template_for_Quarter_Census.xlsx

Sunday, March 24, 2024

JR Newsletter: 24 March 2024 (621)

From the editor:

 

The JRCS learned that Albert Ingram recently passed away.  Those who knew Albert were impressed by his collection of capped bust half dimes by Logan-McCloskey numbers.  He had held the number one spot in the PCGS Registry for half dimes for about two years.  Here is a link to his set, which he named “Life After Cattle”

 

https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/half-dimes/early-half-dimes-specialty-sets/capped-bust-half-dimes-die-variety-set-by-logan-mccloskey-circulation-strikes-1829-1837/alltimeset/176558

 

Glenn Peterson wrote to me to tell me that Albert Ingram was a collector of half dimes and also very knowledgeable about fossils.  Glenn traded an 1835 LM-2 half dime to Albert for the fossil pictured below (metatarsal of ornithromimidae from Hall Creek Formation in Slope County, North Dakota).  Those who corresponded with Albert may now understand why he used “paleofiles” as part of his email address!




 

I remember talking with Albert on the phone, sometimes to arrange a sale or a trade (recently I purchased a common 1836 half dime from Albert), but most of the time it was for the purpose of Albert finding out about half dimes that were being sold or auctioned by Dave Perkins.  Albert was an aggressive bidder for half dimes that were the right grade and die marriage/remarriage he needed for his set. He built a truly great set over the years and thankfully, posted it online for all to see.  I really appreciate how he recorded notes in his PCGS Registry set indicating where he got each of his coins.  

 

Half dime collector Sean Kelly shared too.  Sean wrote, “I got a chance to share some meals with Albert, and we worked together on a few projects. He was a big guy - but always gentle and soft spoken, and a man of few words. No artifice there - he was for real. We were competitors in some ways, and collaborators in others, and I'd looked forward to seeing his research on the Logan - McCloskey plate coins and maybe adding to it. He will be missed.”

 

Fortunately, Sean was also able to send me a link to Albert’s published obituary, which included a photo. One will note that in lieu of flowers, Albert’s family expressed that Albert would have appreciated donations to a couple of local animal/rescue-based charities.




 

OBITUARY

Albert J. Ingram

APRIL 12, 1950 – MARCH 18, 2024

 

Albert J. Ingram, age 73, of Knoxville, Tennessee passed away on Monday, March 18, 2024. He was the CEO of Al Kraemer Farm for 40 years, past president of the Mid South Santa Gertrudis Association, past president of the Breeders of the Carolinas Santa Gertrudis Association, past president of KGEMS and the current president of the Rocky Hill Social Club and current secretary of the Fort Loudon Coin Club.

 

Albert was preceded in death by his parents, Kent W. and Marie C. Ingram.

He is survived by his son, John H. Ingram; longtime partner, Patsy Monk; brothers, Kent Ingram (Rebecca) and David Ingram; nephews, Anthony Ingram, Jacob Ingram and Alexander Ingram; and longtime friends, Charley and Kathy Garvey, Lynn and Peggy Brown, Walter Gawryla and Richard Combs.

 

The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Friday, March 22, 2024 at Berry Highland Memorial, 5315 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919.

 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Albert's name to Young-Williams Animal Center at www.young-williams.org or Small Breed Rescue of East Tennessee at  www.sbret.com.

 

Family and friends can share condolences online 

 https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/knoxville-tn/albert-ingram-11717255/add-memory